1740. November 19. L’Epreuve,
comedy in one act. T.I. Twenty
representations.
1743. February 4. Discours de reception to the French Academy.
1744. August 24. Reflexions sur les progres
de l’esprit humain, read
before
the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for
June,
1755,
under the title of Reflexions sur Thucydide.
October
19. La Dispute, comedy in one act. T.F.
One
representation.
December
29. Reflexions sur les differentes sortes de gloire,
read
before the French Academy; printed in le Mercure
for March,
1751,
under the title of Reflexions sur les hommes.
1746. August 6. Le Prejuge vaincu, comedy
in one act. T.F. Seven
representations.
1748. April 4. Reflexions sur l’esprit
humain, in the form of a
letter
read before the French Academy.
1749. August 24. Reflexions sur Corneille
et sur Racine, read before
the
French Academy; inserted in le Mercure for April,
1755,
under
the title of Reflexions sur l’esprit humain
a l’occasion de
Corneille
et de Racine.
September
24. Continuation of the same reading.
1750. August 25. Continuation of the same
reading.
December
27. Compliment addressed in the name of the
French
Academy
to the Chancellor de Lamoignon; inserted in le Mercure
for
March, 1751.
1751. January 8. Compliment addressed
in the name of the French
Academy
to the garde des sceaux.
August
24. Reflexions sur les Romains et sur les anciens
Perses,
read
before the French Academy; inserted in le Mercure
for
October,
1751.
1754. L’Education d’un prince,
dialogue, in le Mercure, first
volume
for December.
1757. Les Acteurs de bonne foi, comedy in
one act, published in le
Conservateur
for November, 1757.
March
5. Reading and reception at the Comedie-Francaise
of
Felicie,
comedy in one act, not played; published in le
Mercure
for March, 1757.
Date
unknown. Lettre a une dame sur la perte d’un
perroquet
(in
verse).
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
[Footnote: The first biographical and literary study upon Marivaux is that of the Abbe de la Porte, published four years before the former’s death in the Observateur litteraire of 1759, vol. 1, p. 73, etc., reprinted with additional details in the edition of the Oeuvres diverses de Marivaux, published in 1765 by Duchesne, and again in the edition of the Oeuvres completes, published in 1781